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New AI method captures uncertainty in medical images
By providing plausible label maps for one medical image, the Tyche machine-learning model could help clinicians and researchers…
MIT engineers design soft and flexible “skeletons” for muscle-powered robots
New modular, spring-like devices maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power…
UW–Madison researchers develop better way to make painkiller from trees
Scientists have developed a cost-effective and environmentally sustainable way to make a popular pain reliever and other valuable…
Good as Gold – Improving Infectious Disease Testing with Gold Nanoparticles
By harnessing the power of composite polymer particles adorned with gold nanoparticles, a group of researchers have delivered…
Breakthrough Test Can Evaluate Enzyme Involved in Process Associated with Cancer Cell Death
New research could pave the way to develop cancer drugs targeting an enzyme that inhibits ferroptosis, a type…
Exceptional meteorite, plowed up from a Dane County field, finds new home in UW Geology Museum
VIENNA, WIS. – It was a balmy spring day in May 2009 when Jim Koch’s plow kicked up…
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Philips establishes alliance with MIT
Company moves R&D headquarters to Cambridge and establishes a five-year, $25 million research alliance. (Cambridge, MA) — Philips has announced an alliance with MIT, for an initial term of five years and $25 million, that will ultimately support MIT research in the company’s core areas of health care and lighting solutions technology, which will be […]
May 13, 1992, Record-Setting Spacewalk on Shuttle Endeavour’s First Mission
On May 13, 1992, following the successful capture of the Intelsat VI satellite, three astronauts continue moving the 4.5 ton communications satellite into the space shuttle Endeavour’s cargo bay. A fellow…
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)’s Patina Engraving System Wins the Best Paper Award in ACM CHI
A research team of KAIST received the best paper award in the 2015 Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Professor Tek-Jin Nam’s research…
Rice University’s Richards-Kortum, Vardi elected to National Academy of Sciences
Bioengineer, computer scientist join elite list of dual-academy members HOUSTON – Rice University bioengineer Rebecca Richards-Kortum and computer scientist Moshe Vardi have joined the elite group of scientists elected to both the…